tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182690994498367646.post4735825546138493886..comments2023-07-20T09:05:13.400-06:00Comments on Notes From A Transitional Fossil: Today's Theme is "Ants"Archaeopteryxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10627784327758008867noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182690994498367646.post-88373914739589317172009-04-01T08:43:00.000-06:002009-04-01T08:43:00.000-06:00Till, when they come to the valley of the ants, on...Till, when they come to the valley of the ants, one of the ants said" O, ants enter your dwellings, lest Suleiman and his hosts crush you, while they perceive not.( suret al-naml 18 – ants) <BR/><BR/>"In this verse, there is a clear evidence that ants have a language to understand one another and Allah gifted Suleiman with the ability to hear and understand these sounds. The scientists attempt to grasp these acoustic signals that ants utter. Yet, they distinguished four different kinds of these sounds after very long years of watching."<BR/><BR/>This is from 14 centuries. From the glorious Qura'an. It should be time for those who have doubts about Mohammad to question themselves...<BR/><BR/>Ants talk here:<BR/>http://home.olemiss.edu/~hickling/<BR/><BR/>More to read here:<BR/>http://www.bismikaallahuma.org/archi...-in-the-quran/ <BR/><BR/>And here:<BR/><BR/>http://knol.google.com/k/ahmed-abdo/ants-speak/1nf8rodgg6k5e/1#<BR/><BR/>And here too:<BR/>http://www.emuslim.com/QuranandScience/Zoology.asp<BR/><BR/>For more readings:<BR/>http://www.55a.net/firas/english/?page=mix&select_page=who<BR/><BR/>Enjoy your reading and listenning :-)<BR/>__________<BR/><BR/>Who is Dr. Maurice Bucaille..?where is he from; and what did he say about (.........)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182690994498367646.post-75277915903560891422007-04-04T23:34:00.000-06:002007-04-04T23:34:00.000-06:00The summer after we moved into our house, we had a...The summer after we moved into our house, we had an infestation of carpenter ants - the really big ugly black shiny ones. Suddenly they were just everywhere, I even found one in my bed. When the exterminator came out, he showed me how they were crawling in more or less a continuous straight line, one right behind the other, directly from an old dead tree in the woods behind our backyard. There must've been millions of them in that tree, it was the most fascinating and grotesque sight I've ever seen. He doused that tree good and proper, whatever he used is probably banned now, this was 14 years ago.<BR/><BR/>Nowadays I prefer using the method my mother used, taught by <I>her</I> mother: pouring scalding, boiling water on the little buggers from a big old teakettle. <I>Take THAT</I>, you disgusting little creeping insect. (Especially effective on sidewalks.)topazzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06379903935323340176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182690994498367646.post-50136959268508649562007-03-22T17:43:00.000-06:002007-03-22T17:43:00.000-06:00those we call "palmetto bugs"<I>those</I> we call "palmetto bugs"fluffy black puppieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14229996328011752096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182690994498367646.post-28396326266929142542007-03-16T10:13:00.000-06:002007-03-16T10:13:00.000-06:00Hi august, I was thinking of Douglas Hofsadter's d...Hi august, I was thinking of Douglas Hofsadter's description of the anthill as analogue for the heirarchies in the mind. (I wan't really sick of it, just not in a mood to attempt anything like rigor.) I'm going to google up that Thomas essay--sounds interesting.<BR/><BR/>K<BR/><BR/>peoooio: (wasn't me)Keifushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00287358319899471490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182690994498367646.post-17729081625514437682007-03-14T19:12:00.000-06:002007-03-14T19:12:00.000-06:00I've mentioned this before, but one of my all time...I've mentioned this before, but one of my all time favorite essays is Lewis Thomas comparing humans and ants in Lives of a Cell.<BR/><BR/>Keif -- I'm definitely not sick of consciousness. I find it endlessly fascinating.<BR/><BR/>I also remember Feynman doing experiments with ants, but I can't remember where I read it. QED? Seems unlikely...augusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12042512777302374341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182690994498367646.post-58183236541056066732007-03-13T09:02:00.000-06:002007-03-13T09:02:00.000-06:00I know we're all sick of brains and consciousness ...I know we're all sick of brains and consciousness as a theme, but those ants "talk" to each other, sorta, and who knows <A HREF="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4DMUS_enUS208US208&q=artificial+ants" REL="nofollow">what's going on</A> up a level? if you get 50 billion of the little suckers together, I think you got the potential for malice.<BR/><BR/>(I wasn't kidding either. Pretty much exactly as I was replying to your post, I saw the season's first ant. And a whole lot of them since. It appears my younger daughter has been covertly dipping things in sugar.)<BR/><BR/>K<BR/><BR/>ifwqcea: but if we're quick...Keifushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00287358319899471490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182690994498367646.post-47011207702197907512007-03-11T08:17:00.000-06:002007-03-11T08:17:00.000-06:00Hipparchia: that may be the solution. I know y'a...Hipparchia: that may be the solution. I know y'all have some pretty impressive cockroaches down there. I had a friend who visited Florida once to, um, make a purchase, who claimed to have seen a roach so big he felt compelled to shoot it. <BR/><BR/>Keifus: down here, we get to enjoy most insects pretty much year round. Ants, roaches, mosquitos, bees, redwasps, my friend the earwig, you name it. I found two shameless craneflies mating in the floor of the Piggly Wiggly last week. (Folks call craneflies "skeeter hawks" here, under the mistaken impression that they eat mosquitos).Archaeopteryxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10627784327758008867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182690994498367646.post-57665711847113688752007-03-10T21:13:00.000-06:002007-03-10T21:13:00.000-06:00joining the awful-science-fair-projects-fotgotten ...joining the awful-science-fair-projects-fotgotten brigade.....<BR/><BR/>i've never had an ant infestation in any of the places lived, new, old, hermetically sealed, or open to the heavens. i wonder if the roaches keep them at bay?<BR/><BR/>noovgku: novigrad kuruhipparchiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16601000402820151839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182690994498367646.post-58838264143734665762007-03-10T18:41:00.000-06:002007-03-10T18:41:00.000-06:00Jeez. I hadn't really thought of them as malevole...Jeez. I hadn't really thought of them as malevolent. Now when I see them, I'll imagine they're scowling at me--operating both ganglia at full speed in some sort of an effort to take me down--along with the Hershey's Dark Chocolate miniatures I'm holding.<BR/><BR/>That's funny--I, too, had blocked my awful, awful junior high science fair project from my memory. Think I'll just go back to that...Archaeopteryxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10627784327758008867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182690994498367646.post-78892260983934331082007-03-10T18:23:00.000-06:002007-03-10T18:23:00.000-06:00Has something to do with Arkansas, maybe? Our ant...Has something to do with Arkansas, maybe? Our ants don't come out till summer.<BR/><BR/>My wife and I watched the little (not so little) creatures scuttle their way up through a hold under the siding on the porch. We (by which I mean I) caulked like mad, but you can't realistically plug all the ant-size holes. Certainly not in a non-hermetically sealed house that's as old as I am...<BR/><BR/>I get kind of tired of looking at the malevolent little bastards crawling across my kitchen floor, but they don't appear to eat much, and well...<BR/><BR/>(My middle school science fair project was beyond wretched, and I've managed, much like the Rubik's cube solution, to cleanse it from my abused ganglia. One of the very few intellectual nuggets I'm happy forgetting. The rock-music-and-rodents projects were less bad.)<BR/><BR/>K (Oh shit, there's an ant!!)<BR/><BR/>ioaotr: iota's triumphKeifushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00287358319899471490noreply@blogger.com